City of Life and Death
南京!南京!
2009 · 2h 12m · Drama, History, War · China, Hong Kong · Rated R (US)
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
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Lu Chuan7.1Smart score
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